Fire Response: How Your Gifts Are Making A Difference

Photo credit: Kara Capaldo

Your gifts to the Community Foundation’s Fire Response Fund are helping our community heal and rebuild after the devastating CZU Lightning Complex Fires.

Join Community Foundation CEO Susan True and nonprofit leaders on the front lines sharing stories of our community’s courage, resilience, and generosity in response to the fire. We’ll invite you to share what you are most proud of in our community’s response to the fires, the needs you are seeing, and questions you have for the Community Foundation and nonprofit leaders supporting fire survivors in the recovery. You'll walk away with a better understanding of how the wildfire has impacted your neighbors, the nonprofits working on emergency response and long term recovery, and how your gifts have made a difference.

IN THIS ONLINE EVENT YOU’LL HEAR STORIES FROM OUR FIRE FUND GRANTEES:

• Chief Mark Bingham from the Boulder Creek Volunteer Fire Department on their emergency response in fighting the fires.
• Lynn Robinson from Valley Churches United Missions, Isaí Ambrosio Ramírez from Davenport Resource Service Center, and Roxanne Moore from Mountain Community Resource Center on the basic immediate needs of families impacted by the fires from Boulder Creek to Davenport.
• Superintendent- Principal Mike Heffner from the Bonny Doon Union Elementary School District on the impacts on Bonny Doon youth and families.
• Valerie Brown from United Policyholders on how their Roadmap to Recovery Program is helping families who have lost their homes.
• Lisa Lurie from the Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County on their on-site technical and planning assistance to help families assess post-fire land conditions and actions needed to prepare for the winter storms.

Thank you to TAM Communications who donated their time to create the videos featured at this event.